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  • Sargassum and the art of writing about what you know

    Sargassum, as seen here in the curl of the wave, drifts ashore when the winds are steady, rolling into massive piles along the littoral zone, crucial for the ecology of barrier islands. Is it coincidence or by grand design that it is washing ashore during a super moon, when the highest of tides will push…

  • “Cover” makes it into Wattpad’s #1 WattZine!

    I was very pleased to see my Sci-Fi short (Cover) make it into Wattpad’s  #1 and longest running WattZine:  Tevun-Krus #49 – Best of 2K17 For the full list of Sci-Fi shorts, click here. Wattpad has been such a great platform for me, as a writer, to test the waters (no pun intended) with short stories…

  • Waiting For The Asteroid

    With June 30th approaching ( Asteroid Day), here are a few things you can research, read and watch to prepare yourself. RESEARCH:  Start with the leading authority of all things asteroids by going to Asteroidday.org. READ:  I had started a series of sci-fi shorts titled: End Of Days.  One of these stories deals specifically with an…

  • Red Velvet

    ADAPTATION SERIES: Red Velvet   “Tevis, have you located Newell?” “He’s out.” “Who let him out?” “No one.  He’s part of Ops and has the overrides. But with our EVs in maintenance, he’s out there on foot–” The pound of the colony commander’s fist on the table startled her; she had always thought of him as…

  • Under Eden

    END OF DAYS SERIES: Under Eden For other stories in this series, Click Here “Shite, that was close.” From the impact, the sky had lit up so bright we could see clearly down the street with its neatly parked cars, perfectly aligned like the teeth of a zipper. But no one was out and no lights…

  • View From My Kitchen

    END OF DAYS SERIES: View From My Kitchen For other stories in this series, Click Here They said it would come, that it would start with a sunset of such unbelievable beauty it would bring tears to your eyes.  They were right. It was quiet. Eerily quiet.  No bird chirps or the whine of motorboats…

  • 23 Skidoo

    This was originally entered as a sci-fi Friday competition on Wattpad.  It had to be no more than 1500 words and the lead in was this:  A dating site inadvertently paired up androids with humans, and we had to take it from there.  Needless to say, I did not even platform under the honorable mention section… LOL, but…

  • November Seed now available on Offworlders.com for FREE

    I am very excited to announce that November Seed is now available on www.OffWorlders.com  for FREE.  Click on the image below. I selected www.OffWorlders.com to make my novella, November Seed, available to Sci-Fi readers everywhere.  I love this innovative and content rich site and what the folks at OffWorlders are doing here–putting authors in close contact with…

  • The Future was and can be.

    This was a two wheel Gyro car. A 1954 Ford Gyron, dreamed up by futurist Sydney Mead, who later went on to work with major studios on such films as: as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, followed by Blade Runner, Tron, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, Timecop, Johnny Mnemonic and Mission: Impossible III. (wiki)   I…

  • The release of From Europa With Love

    I am pleased to announce the release of my new novelette:  From Europa With Love – Kindle version available for download on OffWordlers.com (Free) and Amazon (.99 cents) Shuttle Captain Kulcin Black follows a distress signal back to Europa but there is no one there to pick up. On return, he discovers he is not alone.